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Switcher Hangout (Windows to Mac)
Another Newbie question by your's truly.
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<blockquote data-quote="Slydude" data-source="post: 1387406" data-attributes="member: 131855"><p>I assume you mean Time Machine? Not exactly. A Time Machine Backup can restore your data but cannot be used to boot the Mac. Time Machine is a great idea for what it does restoring accidentally deleted data/going back to a previous version of a document. It's great for restoring files but doesn't get the entire system back operational quickly.</p><p></p><p>When my hard drive died booting from the clone took only a few seconds longer than booting from my internal drive. Once booting was complete I could do anything I needed to with the Mac just as if I had booted from the original drive. If I had only relied on Time Machine I would have to boot from the instal DVD and then wait while the entire system gets restored.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slydude, post: 1387406, member: 131855"] I assume you mean Time Machine? Not exactly. A Time Machine Backup can restore your data but cannot be used to boot the Mac. Time Machine is a great idea for what it does restoring accidentally deleted data/going back to a previous version of a document. It's great for restoring files but doesn't get the entire system back operational quickly. When my hard drive died booting from the clone took only a few seconds longer than booting from my internal drive. Once booting was complete I could do anything I needed to with the Mac just as if I had booted from the original drive. If I had only relied on Time Machine I would have to boot from the instal DVD and then wait while the entire system gets restored. [/QUOTE]
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